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In a different orchard
mouse sounds flicker
below the ground, an
idea of huge music is
forged from the loose
ribbon waving around
& two ideas of failure
have it out in song—
both sing like the wind
is their friend, but only
one knows her well
enough to make their
voice ride the air, so
the mice hear/& follow
Lavender Town
You tell me a spell to get the ghosts
off my back. It works for a while.
Every laundromat in town is hidden
by signs that say closed, moved, new
location. To be warm and clean and
have time for song is a big secret.
Be careful / not to look at it too long.
Artificial Intelligence Painting
Down the April corridors we stumble,
reinventing names. The lilacs softly put.
Solfege lilting the way sadness makes you
walk, like an awkward bird in the corner
of the canvas—radiating doubt, sure, but
no ill will. When all of this darkness builds
into wind, I hope you’ll have a few stock
answers to distract them, even if only
for a moment. My heroine my heroine
my little blue light. A soft rain interrupts
the grazing. No record of it anywhere.
I Was Going To Burn Some Sage For The People Of This World But Then I Read An Article On The Internet Saying It Was A Bad Idea
Also I didn’t have any sage
To burn
Doing nothing is always easier
Ask the cop in the graveyard
Or the teacher who
Every day
Parks her car in front of legions
Of Massachusetts dead
And then goes to work teaching
Students about the history
Of witches thieves
And revolutionaries
Hydration Improves Your Credit Score and Your Love Life
after Asheville high school students
after Hanif Abdurraqib
When I die please let mushrooms
grow in my mouth, or wherever
The truth is like a deer bc it’s scared
You search the immaculate grass
and find one dirty pearl, some trash
Zero four-leaf clovers
Nothin’ but net on this diaper shot
taken from eighth court—
The angle alone makes it kinda impressive
Tom Snarsky teaches mathematics at Malden High School in Malden, Massachusetts, USA. He is the author of Threshold, a chapbook of poems available now from Another New Calligraphy. He tweets @TomSnarsky and lives in Chelsea, MA with his fiancée Kristi and their two cats, Niles and Daphne.
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